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 AP P END I X. I can call the htter part el? this paragraph no other than a lampoon upon the diiildine of that whoie univertity  nay, fo bare-fac'd a one, that (contr,ar to )/our ufual gravity) it comes up to a meet tunere You feem to be �o fond of this talent at Ridicule, el-at, having O. arted theconcdt of an undergradute' lacing like an aentite, (which you etymologize in a very accurate manner) you ,proceed to bur!efque the I'rofeffors .of liberal fcicnoes, (not, I fear, wthout having a Farucular eye upon the Clergy_,) a well as the nedleft: olr merit in the univerfity, in this �evere manner: *" Nor, indeed, can you fee the necef- "fity there is to learn his malter's art, in order to " it; for fuch, you have obferv'd, is the �' genersl ..Zegard to fiholsfii,k merit, and rich the "ha. ppy &fierenee between a [bholar and a mecha. "as&, that a fihdar may ./t up, without having "ever learnt his trade, and often have better buji- "neff, .than he that hath greater sk//l." In the next paffige, which I fnall cite, you to have work'd up a very high encomium upon yurfllf with your ufual fiverity upon your thren. Having.tod us how ingenious cholar ou hr ro . h refpe their Tutor for t/ie 1tnSnefs exercit them, you conclude thus: �hey will rather value ', him the more, for that he hath not fo regarded �' his care, as to be remi�s in his duty  and hath "the kor, efly and the courage to perrevere, and to ,' equal, in the midtt of innumerable temptations to ".in&lunge and partt!ity." -.OW'

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